Interesting Find

[Brandon Pollet]

I was just checking out the main page for Scout (http://scoutapp.com/) and I saw this quote...

"I wrote a Scout plugin in about ten minutes - it's as simple as writing Ruby. And since I'm in love with Ruby, naturally, Scout is my new favorite tool for keeping an eye on my servers."

- Tim Morgan, Tulsa Ruby User Group

Just thought I would post it to the group. 

Tim are you still using Scout, what do you think of it?

- Brandon

[Tim Morgan]

I like it a lot. A very nice product that can help a lot in tracking down issues and catching problems before your users tell you about them.

But ultimately had to un-sign up when money was tight. They have a free account, but it's pretty limiting.

-Tim

[Joseph A Holsten]

Are you using anything for monitoring right now? Any memorable
headaches or fondness for these?

http://mmonit.com/monit/
http://munin.projects.linpro.no/
http://god.rubyforge.org/
http://www.nagios.org/

On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Tim Morgan wrote:

> I like it a lot. A very nice product that can help a lot in tracking
> down issues and catching problems before your users tell you about
> them.
>
> But ultimately had to un-sign up when money was tight. They have a
> free account, but it's pretty limiting.
>
> -Tim
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Brandon Pollet <bpo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I was just checking out the main page for Scout (http://

> scoutapp.com/) and I saw this quote...

[Starr Horne]

Monit and munin are nice. I've used them both. They're good to use
together, since monit is all about emailing you when your sshd goes
down, but munin is more about graphing CPU/MEM/etc over time.

SH

[Tim Morgan]

i've only used god in the past, but am not using anything but a few hand-baked ruby scripts + cron right now.

I was fairly happy with god, but disappointed that I had to restart it periodically to keep its own memory use in check (not sure if you can set it up to monitor itself).